Wichita eagle., 1887-06-26
FIVE BIG PROPOSITIONS.
Immense Manufacturing Concerns For
Whichita.

In actual business handled, London is the
| chief commercial city OF the world, Liver
pool second, and New York good third. In
| 1875 the value of exports and imports at
| S773 900 900, and these three lead in the
| value of manufactured articles.-New York
| Tribune.
While the commercial city OF any country
is Away the great manufacturing city OF
such country it holds equally true that the
commercial city of any section of any coun
| try is the manufacturing city Of that sec
tion We hear much-from outsiders about
| the necessity of more and greater manufac-
tories in Wichita If we except Leaven-
| worth the value of Wichita's manufactured
articles exceeds that Of any city in Kansas
today. Wichita being the commercial city
of the state will just as surely be the manu-
featuring center. Manufacturing interests
are springing Up almost daily upon every
hand not great concerns employing hundreds
of experts each in the production of special
ties and involving millions of dollars, but in
those lines which hinge on commercial life,
and might grow with the growth of trade.
But Wichita is going to have
some specialties. Wichita is talked
of from one side of the continent to the
OF her as one of the coming great cities, and
ma nufacturers no less than capitalists are
co ming to see us every day. A commercial
city means facilities for reaching the many
and widely distributed customers of a terri
tory and manufacturers know that. When
the head of an eastern concern was informed,
the other day, that Wichita's morning paper
he answered, 'that settles it; I'll go and see
the place at once"
Yes, Wichita is destined to become just as
great in the direction of manufactures as she
il growing to be in the direction of commerce.
As an indication, as an earnest, of the fact
we might mention that the Board OF Direc-
tors of the Wichita Board of Trade on Fri
day afternoon had five important manufac-
turing propositions submitted to them. All
that three OF them asked was an investiga-
tion and if worthy, then an endorsement
by the board of trade Another concern
proposes branch of a great plant which
would employ one hundred and fifty expert
men, Every question touching this last
plant was answered by the board of trade in
the Affirmative Another was from power
full corporation of an eastern city, who pro-
poses to put in million dollars and employ
a thousand men in a branch establishment
here in Wichita, simply to meet the demands
of their western trade.
In addition to these, two great quasi-com-
mercial concerns had sent in reports of their
business in connection with propositions to
locate in Wichita.
AS the EAGLE has always opposed running
after ard bomising manufacturing interests,
holding to the doctrine that if our city be,
came commercially great enough to hold the
prestige over all other cities of the south
west, that manufacturing and packing inter
ests would follow, and that inevitably, we
are now glad to note the many unsolicited
overtures being made by wealthy and solid
interests, but which, however, after all, have
come just as naturally and just as surely as
that water will seek its own leval-just as
surely as that manufacturing life always
follows in the trail of commercial life.